Klopfenstein v. Eads

In May, 1925, John H. Murray, a traveling salesman, and whose administrator brought this action for damages on account of his death, employed the defendants Eads’ truck to convey his five or six sample trunks from Olympia to Shelton. An agreement was made between the parties as to the charge for the hauling. No arrangements were made whereby Mr. Murray was also to ride on the truck, but as it started from Olympia he asked the driver to stop, and he then got on the driver’s seat and thus continued on the trip to Shelton, the defendant Bailey, a servant of the defendants Eads, doing the driving…